Ghoulia Triptych

I had a little light tent shoot with Ghoulia yesterday evening. It was fabulous. I love her outfit so much I may not take it off for a while but I'm not the collectors item kind of lady who will put her away in a box to preserve her re-sale value. As you know, I like to play. I will definitely be keeping her outfit and stock pieces in tact though as those will definitely come in handy if I want to resell them later. I'm long overdue for a clothing clean-out sale. I need the money but I'm just so lazy. I will let you know when I do.

Fave Blythe Video of the day: Hotel bed

Hotel bed a video by sozzielou on Flickr.

And that is the cutest thing I've seen all day!
: D

My Monster High Limit

Untitled, a photo by Zanalee on Flickr.

So here's the deal. I don't care how many more amazing lines Monster High comes out with or how many more amazing photos of them are taken by my fave MH flickr photographers! I can only allow myself to get two more! "School's Out Clawdeen" and "Dawn of the Dance Lagoona Blue." "Schools Out Clawdeen" would make my third Clawdeen and DOTD Lagoona would be my first Lagoona.

Yesterday my first Ghoulia Yelps, the SDCC (San Francisco Comic Con) Collectors item version came in at work. I've never been crazy about Ghoulia Yelps. My take on her is that she's supposed to be the nerdy odd one. She's not really cutesy and girly like the other characters and I guess that was kinda hard for me to get used to at first. Also the fact but they always give her these big pink or red lips in previous lines totally turned me off. That may work for Frankie, Cleo, Lagoona and Clawdeen but for me that color just looked kind of mocking on Ghoulia.

I happened upon this SDCC version of her one day a few weeks ago while trolling on ebay and I just thought that this coloring was so smart (pun intended) for her. Silver lips, glittery silver eye shadow and amazing blue and silver hair. She is dressed as her favorite fictional Comic Book hero, Deadfast. LOL!!

The rest of her stock is just amazing and I finally have a pair of her wonderful nerdy glasses which I have wanted forever! They really do transform her face which looks completely different without them. I love love love glasses! Doll glasses! Glasses for myself. I love them!

This Ghoulia also comes with an extra pair of superhero shades that are just too effing cool. More pics later. But to conclude, I have only two more MH gals that I have to have and that's it! This has to stop!

YAAAAY FOR PETITE GEAR!!!!

I've gone and done it!, a photo by obsessivelystitching - StitchWhipped on Flickr.

Obsessivley Stitching (and believe me, this lady is true to her flickr handle!) is one of my fave pette Blythe dress makers thus far! The only reason I haven't put her on blast until now is because while is prolifically turning out dresses, she has not actually put any up for sale until recently. I have to tell you that for me this is like torture. I want like every other thing that she makes literally!! You can tell she really loves to sew for them and that feeling totally transfers over in her photos.

Today she posted that she now has these sweet itty bitty dresses up in her e-shop and even though I have no business buying a thing (after using my paycheck to pay all my bills today I am sadly nearly broke already!) I had to get that yellow dress with the tiny cars!!! OH! I just love tiny clothes! And she is sooooo good at this! If you like petite Blythes you should definitely check her shop out! : D

Blythephoneography

Blythephoneography by Zenzile Greene | Make Your Own Book

I take a lot of Blythe Doll Photos. I've taken a lot of Blythe Doll photos using my iPhone: about 876 or more to be exact are posted to my flickr account. I thought it was time to put together another Blythe Blurb book.
I just love making these and didn't have an immediate theme in mind so I just decided to do it around Blythe phone pics because I just love how they go together and how much they have in common! At it's best, iPhononograpy for me is nostalgic, emotional, quirky, mysterious, dark, funny, random and ironic, many of the same  wonderful qualities that I love about Blythe dolls. I decided to make this one in the smallest trim size available, the square size, which I believe is 7X7 inches. I ordered the first copy in a soft cover with premium matte paper.

I admit to putting this one together a little faster than my previous books. It's kind of an experiment with the interest to do something a bit larger and more involved, perhaps with more of a narrative. Please check it out if you get the chance! I would appreciate any feedback! : )

Have I not talked about Darla Daley?

Well before I talk about Darla, I need to talk about Poppy Parker. Don't laugh. These stuck up, uptight, snotty butt, preppy names are real! Poppy Parker is a doll I became aware of the way anyone who becomes a Jason Wu Doll Collector does. She is part of a line he created which is inspired by the story line of a girl who has just landed in New York and wants to explore and experience all of it's opulent downtown sophistication and "magic." She is described as "a sweet girl from the mid-west." She's supposed to be a teenager but she never  looked sweet nor teen-aged to me. The whole series of pouty lipped Poppy Parker princesses disturbed me initially. But as always, having seen her look transformed and interpreted in so many different ways by incredible flickr photographers has given me a slightly different opinion about her. Recently released is her black friend, Darla Daley! Uh huh.

She's just as snotty, and uptight looking as Pops and reminds me a bit of Dominique Devereaux on Dynasty. LOL! But I kinda wanna get her! HAHAHA! So watch out for Ms. Daley. She may be moving her fancy bags in soon.

Back in NYC!

Newport Rhode Island was better than I though it would be even if the one day we were on the beach the sky was covered in fog and the wind was so high and violent it felt like a freakin hurricane was coming. Meanwhile all the New Englanders stood around doing all the normal beach stuff as if every pore of their bodies was not being covered in sand from merely being there.

Angora's hair looked lovely flowing in the hurricane like winds and Hamsa just stretched out for a nap. No one got in the water. I don't go into the ocean unless it's above 90 degrees. I know better.  Now here in NYC it's currently over a hundred. That's when I don't leave the water! LOL!!

*Sigh!* Well the Summer's not over yet. I will have my true beach day before it's done! : D

Hope all your summers are amazing as well. But stay cool and stay indoors if you have to. And of course, stay hydrated.